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The Army just made a huge change in policy for moms. On Friday, the Army announced that active duty or reserve soldiers who have just given birth will have 365 days to meet body fat requirements, instead of the previous 180 days. Moms in the miltary welcomed the change. U.S. Army Major Natalie Mallue said the new policy means she…

U.S. Army officials say 11 soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas were sickened after drinking an industrial compound found in antifreeze

The failure by Trump to wear a mask at the Army-Navy game came amid a record number of deaths from coronavirus, and as a Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use.

The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is opening its doors on Veterans Day.

Weeks before her disappearance, slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base and was afraid to speak up because of what Gloria Guillen calls a culture that protects abusers in the military at the expense of victims like her daughter, NBC News reports.

U.S. Army officials say they will begin an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood following calls for a more thorough investigation into the killing of a soldier from the Texas base

The U.S. Army, which has come under criticism by the family of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, is speaking out, addressing questions about the investigation into her disappearance more than two months ago.

This Memorial Day, people across the state found a way to hold ceremonies amidst the pandemic. Whether it was online, at a distance or behind a mask, people took a moment to remember. It was the kind of remembering that has consumed every day of Jacob Cullers’ life since 2011. “It is not just Memorial Day,” Cullers said. “It is…

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services

The enemy Hank Bolden faced didn’t come from a faraway front line. It came from the skies. It’s a battle he’s still fighting 65 years later. Bolden, now 82 years old, is an atomic veteran – one of the hundreds of thousands of American service members used in human experimentation by the U.S. government during nuclear testing after World...

A New Haven veteran is one of only a few surviving African-American service members who were used as human experiments during atomic bomb testing after WWII.

Haitian police officers have exchanged gunfire for hours with soldiers of the newly reconstituted army outside the national palace.

Two U.S. service members were killed and two others injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement Saturday. In keeping with defense department rules, the U.S. military did not identify the service members. But a statement issued by Aurora, Illinois, Mayor Richard Irvin said Miguel Villalon, 21,...

The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power” and were televised during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia on Saturday, school officials said. Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two...

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that the FBI received a call about three years ago about the U.S. Army veteran who opened fire on a courthouse in downtown Dallas.

The Trump administration has quietly released more than $100 million in military assistance to Lebanon after months of unexplained delay that led some lawmakers to compare it to the aid for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry. The $105 million in Foreign Military Financing funds for the Lebanese Armed Forces was released just before the Thanksgiving holiday and...

The Trump administration is withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress and is favored by his national security team, an assertion of executive control of foreign aid that is similar to the delay in support for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on...

David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, makes his opening statement during an afternoon impeachment hearing on Nov. 20, 2019.

An Army Sergeant whose remains were accounted for 69 years after he was reported missing in action during the Korean War can finally be laid to rest on U.S. soil.